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A Velvet Giant

a genreless literary journal

  • about
  • submit
  • masthead
  • archive
  • Issues
    • Issue 10
    • Issue 9
    • Issue 8
    • Issue 7
    • Issue 6
    • Issue 5
    • Issue 4
    • Issue 3
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 1
  • Search
 

submission guidelines

Submissions are currently CLOSED.

after you submit

You can expect to hear back no more than six months from when you submitted.

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We ask for first serial rights, and we ask that any future publications of accepted work will acknowledge A Velvet Giant.

Please read our about page and archive of previous issues to learn & become familiar with what kind of work we are interested in reading and publishing.

We are especially interested in work by genderqueer & LGBTQ+ people, women, people of color, global writers, people living with disability and/or chronic pain/illness, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Please do NOT send us work that is misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic, or otherwise oppressive or exploitative in nature. If you’re not sure, don’t send it.

what are we looking for?

donations

Donated funds are used to pay our illustrator and all of our contributors, as well as to maintain the website.

We pay our contributors $20 per author upon publication.